{"id":34364,"date":"2013-10-18T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34364"},"modified":"2016-05-28T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T18:14:09","slug":"who-stole-all-the-black-women-from-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34364","title":{"rendered":"Who stole all the black women from Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\/post\/64332959370\/who-stole-all-the-black-women-from-britain\" target=\"_blank\">Who stole all the black women from Britain?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmadabiri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Dabiri<\/a><\/strong>, Teaching Fellow<br \/>\nAfrica Department, <em>School of African and Oriental Studies, London<br \/>\n<\/em>Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, <em>Goldsmiths University of London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Here in the UK, the\u00a0 visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you might be forgiven for thinking we are an endangered species. The near erasure of Black British women from this terrain which is in the main dominated by black men and white women, is rarely commented upon, despite its prominence.\u00a0 What is actually going on here? Is this some manifestation of the quite frankly ridiculous Eldrige Cleaver quote above. Or is it something else?.<\/p>\n<p>The (ahem) \u2018urban\u2019 (we know what they really mean) landscape that provides the basis of so much of Britain\u2019s somewhat depressing representations of mainstream youth culture borrows heavily from black culture, yet sometimes seems entirely devoid of black women. The characters who populate this world are black men and white women. Access may be permitted to the occasional mixed-race girl but beyond this tokenism this is the white woman\u2019s world!<\/p>\n<p>From movies such as <em>Kidulthood<\/em>, to the presenters of the Kiss FM Takeaway show, who typify this phenomenon, the symbols of \u2018Urban\u2019 or Black British youth culture are routinely Black men and their white female partners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\/post\/64332959370\/who-stole-all-the-black-women-from-britain\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London &#8230;Here in the UK, the\u00a0 visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,394,10,25],"tags":[13992,13842],"class_list":["post-34364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-women","tag-black-girl-dancing-at-lughnasa","tag-emma-dabiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47144,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364\/revisions\/47144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}